He came ahead of Caroline Lucas, Tom Watson and Polly Toynbee to take the top spot.

In their nominating piece for Jones, Fabians Olly Parker and Natan Doron wrote:

“Owen has managed re-launch the debate around class and inequality by finding new and accessible ways to make arguments that Labour thinkers have been making for years.

“He has also challenged the establishment by holding up a mirror to the way different people from different parts of the country are treated by the media and political elite in this country.

“As well as all this, Owen has often managed to argue a traditional hard-left point of view without coming across as completely mad. The media love to drop your archetypal “mad lefty” – or indeed “mad right-winger” – into TV debates for the sake of entertainment.

“Owen has not played up to this but has instead sensibly made arguments that the public can understand and relate to.

“The more we have of people like Owen discussing politics on TV, the better off and more constructive political discourse in this country will be.”

Thank you to everyone who took part in the vote. The full results are listed below: